Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five weeks, tapping wires, spying through binoculars, loafing around in disguise, before they could put the finger on an apartment house in The Bronx. Some fine undercover work was done during the American Legion Convention by a policeman and a policewoman disguised as a Kansas Legionnaire and his wife...
...Wife for Nazaro. Now the Jews of San Nicandro are anxious to go to Palestine. Isolated as they are, they are threatened with extinction. There have been no conversions for several years, and Donato Manduzio is a greyheaded man. Marriage presents an almost insurmountable difficulty for them. Last year one of the group's elders wrote to the president of a Jewish refugee organization: "A young man, Nazaro di Salva, born in 1925, wants to take a wife, but in our community there is none. I therefore apply to you as president of orphans and refugees, that you might...
...news item, and such headlines as BILL CAREY'S PANTS FOUND AT SABUTTUS, sometimes makes the 1,500 Down-East readers of the Lisbon Falls (Me.) Enterprise suspect that their weekly is pulling their legs. But his tongue-in-cheek reporting, besides winning Editor-Author (Farmer Takes a Wife) John Gould, 38, a reputation as a Yankee humorist, has brought his weekly 1,000 "foreign" subscribers from other parts...
...Bowery. He had a perfectly good job as a pari-mutuel ticket-seller at the $50 window at a New Jersey race track, and insisted indignantly that the $50 window was a post no drinking man could hold. He had spent the previous evening playing pinochle with his wife and the neighbors...
...offered the News to his I.T.U. employees, he said, if they would just pay him I.T.U. wages in return. They turned him down, so he was calling it quits. His printers could shift for themselves; Publisher Allen had sold his equipment for more than $50,000, was taking his wife and heading for the Caribbean in a surplus Marine Corps plane he had bought...